From:
Richard Sutton Ford
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 May 1839
Source of text:
DAR 186: 44
Summary:
Answers to [Questions about breeding].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Embury; George Tollet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[10 May 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 186: 51
Summary:
Replies to [Questions about breeding].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
American Philosophical Society.
Date:
23 May 1839
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.16)
Summary:
As Secretary of the Geological Society of London, CD formally expresses thanks for the American Philosophical Society’s Proceedings, vol. 1, no. 6.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gideon Algernon Mantell
Date:
23 May 1839
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, fMS-Papers-0083-465)
Summary:
Writes, as Secretary of the Geological Society, to thank GAM for his presents, a slab of anthracite with plant impressions (from Philadelphia) and some fossils from Cornwall.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Benjamin Silliman, Sr; Benjamin Silliman, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin; William John Hamilton
Date:
24 May 1839
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/233)
Summary:
Thanks for copies of the Proceedings of the Geological Society of London, with a request for items (listed) missing from their set.
Offer to supply, if they can, any copies missing from the Geological Society’s run of the American Journal of Science.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
25 May [1839]
Source of text:
Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Summary:
Invitation to dine at the Darwins’ with J. S. Henslow.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet
Date:
27 May 1839
Source of text:
The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824)
Summary:
Presents the account of Smith, Elder & Co. for the now published second and third numbers of the first part of the Zoology.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Sharp Macleay
Date:
29 May 1839
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London
Summary:
Introduces Syms Covington and recommends him for employment in Australia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
29 May 1839
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 2009/108: 6)
Summary:
A letter of reference for Syms Covington.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
Date:
31 May [1839]
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (A 295/1 pp.1–3)
Summary:
CD’s servant [Syms Covington] will work his passage to Australia.
Returns a curious stone, of which he hopes to publish an account. [See Volcanic islands, p. 38.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
Thomas Romney Robinson
Date:
30 May 1839
Source of text:
MM/9/49, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
unknown
To:
JED Bethune
Date:
18 May 1839
Source of text:
MM/12/53, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
Text Online
From:
William Wyon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1 May 1839
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.33
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Hawkins
Date:
3 May 1839
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 93
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward Hawkins
Date:
11 May 1839
Source of text:
BM Department of Western and Asiatic Antiquities MS Correspondence 1826–1860, volume 5, 1719
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Mark Roget
Date:
15 May 1839
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
19 May 1839
Source of text:
Elizabeth M. Milton
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
20 May 1839
Source of text:
BL add MS 37191, f.166
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Marc Isambard Brunel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
24 May 1839
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Marc Isambard Brunel
Date:
24 May 1839
Source of text:
ICE MS Thames Tunnel Chief Engineer's Reports, volume 3, f.101
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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- Babbage, Charles1
- Biot, Jean Baptiste1
- Biot, Madame1
- Bowditch [Jr.], Nathaniel1
- Brunel, Marc Isambard1
- Chevreul, [Michel] E[ugène]1
- Cooper, Edward Joshua1
- Darwin, C. R.7
- Darwin, Emma1
- Decuppis, Pompilio1
- Elliot, James1
- Embury, George1
- Faraday, Michael5
- Ford, R. S.1
- Gauss, Carl Friedrich1
- Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, [Étienne]1
- Herschel, John3
- Hobhouse, John Cam1
- Macdougal, Thomas1
- Maclear, Thomas1
- Perigal, Henry1
- Quetelet, Lambert-Adolphe-Jacques1
- Raper, Henry1
- Reid, William1
- Russell, Lord John1
- Sheepshanks, Richard1
- Silliman, Benjamin, Jr1
- Silliman, Benjamin, Sr1
- Tollet, George1
- Wedgwood, Emma1
- Wyon, William1
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